Question: If I am the creation of a perfect Creator, why can’t I, just as I am, simply be allowed to enjoy the ordinary life given by the Creator?

Answer: You can. But then you will turn into a little “bug” sitting on a piece of cake and consuming it your entire life. No one will disturb it: just as it began its life, so it will finish it. Do you want to be like that? By all means!

Question: But the Creator will not allow a person to remain in such a state?

Answer: Of course not. We must stand level with the Creator, rise to His degree, nothing less than that. Each person must take their place in the system of creation, at its specific, pivotal points. All the more so this must be attained by those who have received a special awakening toward the wisdom of governance.
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From a Kabbalah Lesson in Russian, 6/25/17

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To build a place for the revelation of the Creator means that a person must not only correct himself, but also receive the “bricks” for the construction from everyone else, which means to attach the desires of others.

Each person must use all the desires that exist in reality, the desires that are prepared by the Creator for the created beings. Everyone builds a complete Kli, a perfect place. It turns out that it must be built from 600,000 parts that were originally embedded in the foundation of the soul of Adam HaRishon, where each part, in turn, consists of 600,000.

The Kli that a person corrects from the foundations given to him is infinite. Although it is said that it is 620 times greater, in truth it is impossible even to say how many times greater or how much better in quality it is than the initial foundations that were prepared for building the Kli.

All the sensation of reality, all eternity and perfection, we attain only in this Kli, within the “place.” Therefore it is said that “there is nothing that has no place” because if something exists, if there is anything that we perceive as existing, it can only be within the “place,” according to the measure of its revelation.

And what we feel initially is the stage of Nefesh, the minimal, almost negligible sensation of life that is given to us only so that we can begin the work.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/7/26, Rabash, “What Is ‘There Is Nothing that Has No Place,’ in the Work?”

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Regarding the Creator, it is written, “And the Lord came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain.”

Regarding the people, it is written, “And they stood at the foot of the mountain.”

Anything that is in the intellect is regarded as “in potential.” Afterward, it can expand into actual fact. Accordingly, we can interpret “And the Lord came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain,” as the thought and intellect of man, meaning that the Creator informed all the people that the inclination of a man’s heart is evil from his youth. After the Creator informed them in potential, meaning at the top of the mountain, that which was in potential expanded in actual fact (Rabash, What Is Preparation for Reception of the Torah? – 1).

Question: What is the recognition of evil?

Answer: That which constantly obstructs me is called evil. The more it obstructs me, the more I want to kill it, erase it, and detach myself from it. If I reveal that it is literally killing me, then I am ready to do anything just to get rid of it to such an extent that people actually pay enormous sums of money to rid themselves of bad qualities, undergo various treatments, attend courses, and so on.

But here I begin to measure myself relative to another point, relative to the top of Mount Sinai, the point in the heart. Then everything that is below the mountain—that is, my nature, which is called “the people,” the people of Israel—I define as evil with respect to myself.

Either I associate myself with the mountain, with Moses who ascended it, or I bury myself beneath the mountain.

If I determine that for me it is evil to remain below the mountain and not on its summit, this is called the true recognition of evil. Then I truly need to receive the correction, to receive the Torah.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/12/26, Rabash, “What Is Preparation for Reception of the Torah? – 1”

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Question: Is there some special reason why in the article “Why the Speech of Shabbat Must Not Be as the Speech of a Weekday, in the Work” Rabash addresses the religious and not the secular?

Answer: This is indeed so because there is a necessity to perform the commandments on the material level.

We are built from two parts: intention and action. We need to make sure that intention is the determining factor, and action is the consequence of intention, rather than having intention without action, as if we are simply “fluttering” like angels.

If we perform an action without intention in which there is nothing, then we act like an animal that carries out commands. That is, a person who performs commands without the involvement of his personal desire is similar to an animal.

Therefore, it is said that “a commandment without intention is like a body without a soul.” As Baal HaSulam writes in the “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot,” a person must study, at least from a short guide, how to observe the commandments and truly fulfill them. But in addition to this, one must perfect oneself and constantly care about the intention through which you grow from below upward to the state of equivalence with the Creator, to the purpose of creation.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/14/26, Rabash, “Why the Speech of Shabbat Must Not Be as the Speech of a Weekday, in the Work”

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